Guild Wars 2

So i finally got to 500 yesterday, but now i am missing emperyal shards. Can anyone tell me how i can obtain them i got my 500 bloodstone and my 500 dragonite i am only missing the emperyal shards.

Any1?

Thx in advance

Dungeons give 20 shards per path, and you could also try and run as many jps as you know, they give from my own experience between 3-9 shards

Thx! That is why i have none of these shards. I haven’t run dungeons in ages :P

Did the hard Southsun one and got 3, then Cof path 1 got me 20+1.

Here OP, good luck

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Empyreal_Fragment

ANY chest out on the landscape will give a few, and they will do so for EACH 80th level character that drops by once per day.

There is a casual loop of 6 chests in Queensdale. I’ve been running several of my 80s out there and can easily pick up 100 per day just from that zone.

Can you explain this to me… not quitte sure what you are talking about. In Queensdale are random drops of chest and you can pick them up at any time with any of your 80’s in my case 6…?

You don’t need jump puzzle chests in particular – they are just part of a larger group of permanent landscape chests and ALL of them give a couple empyreal shards each, once per 80th level character per day. Check this list and descriptions.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_basic_chests

I happen to do the 6 or so listed on that page for Queensdale because I was familiar with all of them. I bust in to the beggar’s burrow: kill a few guys, loot the chest. Port over to the wolf cave: kill veteran wolf + cub, open chest. Walk to the harpy nests: kill harpy matron, open chest. Port to the Godslost Swamp, hike up to the centaur camp: kill centaur chieftain, open chest. Walk to Demongrub Pits puzzle: jump a bit, kill spiders, open chest, jump some more, kill oozes, open chest. Maybe 10 minutes per character and about 20 shard per character for the loop.

I’ll probably scope out another zone or two this week and be pulling in 200 or so shards a day .

Nike.2631:

ANY chest out on the landscape will give a few, and they will do so for EACH 80th level character that drops by once per day.

I did not know this, thanks. Seems like the only real challenging one is dragonite.

There are 5 easy to reach chests in Wayfarer Foothills as well (jumping puzzle, 2 Jotun caves, 2 Svanir caves).

You can also get them from capturing camps and towers in WvW. Camp Supervisors drop 4, and tower Lords drop 8. Make sure you get kill credit though, credit for capturing the camp is not enough.

Solo.9027:

Nike.2631:

ANY chest out on the landscape will give a few, and they will do so for EACH 80th level character that drops by once per day.

I did not know this, thanks. Seems like the only real challenging one is dragonite.

Not really. You get 30 if you complete a Temple and up to 25 from completing any of the big world bosses.

I think 5 per open world chest and 10 per Jumping Puzzle would be fair, as it stands though they’re dungeon/open world grind, and it sucks to do a tough JP and get a mere 2 shards. At least champ bags give like 5-9, and I can solo those faster than doing a single jumping puzzle. I thought it might be linked to level, but even Orr JPs gave me 2-4 shards…

I’m really thankful this material is available through a variety of sources including the open world chests. I like WvW, but it’s not that reliable since you never know if you’ll log in on the night when your side is doing well. I’m not a big fan of jumping puzzles so it’s nice there are other options.

Orr Temples will probably see more activity. One nice thing about these new mats, I finally got to do the Temple of Balthazar lol

Dragonite seems….relatively easy. Since they drop from the frequently repeating world bosses and temples in large quantities, it won’t be too difficult to collect 100.

Those shards though. Why only 2-5 per jumping puzzle chest? Some of those jumping puzzles and mini dungeons are hard and quite time consuming. Sure, you could park an alt at one, but even if they were dropping 10 per day, that would still take 50 days to collect enough.

I’m not really interested in doing dungeon runs for them, but I might have to once I get closer to actually crafting an Ascended Weapon.

DoctorOverlord.8620:

I’m really thankful this material is available through a variety of sources including the open world chests. I like WvW, but it’s not that reliable since you never know if you’ll log in on the night when your side is doing well. I’m not a big fan of jumping puzzles so it’s nice there are other options.

Orr Temples will probably see more activity. One nice thing about these new mats, I finally got to do the Temple of Balthazar lol

For these it is easier if your side NOT doing well. Easiest would be when the enemy owns everything and you are outmanned. If your side owns everything there is nothing to kill for this loot.

Coldin.2840:

Dragonite seems….relatively easy. Since they drop from the frequently repeating world bosses and temples in large quantities, it won’t be too difficult to collect 100.

You actually need 500 for a single weapon. I don’t do world bosses much anymore because of overflows on tarnished coast, hopefully the fix they implement for that will make them fun again along with the revamps like Tequatl.

The problem with the JP Empyreal rewards is that you can park a character there and collect it daily without any effort. I still don’t think it should be that low.

Also, it seems it is in no way balanced between different Jumping Puzzles. The one in Wayfarer Hills (takes less than a minute to clear) gives the same amount as the Southsun Stepping stones one.

“Minidungeons” … or typically what you’d see listed in your Explorer locations where you usually fight some Vets to open a door… seem give to up to 9 shards pretty consistently. This might be a real boon to those with lots of alts if you bring them all to the same JP or Minidungeon and park them at the door/gate that has to be opened.

One example… that cave below the spinach patch in Gendarren… 3 lousy shards for soloing a Champion Spider = not worth it. But parking my other 4 alts right at the lock gate first and getting them all through it once it’s opened… turns the crappy drop amount of a PITA mini dungeon into almost a full scale dungeon once each alt pops the chest.

ilr.9675:

“Minidungeons” … or typically what you’d see listed in your Explorer locations where you usually fight some Vets to open a door… seem give to up to 9 shards pretty consistently. This might be a real boon to those with lots of alts if you bring them all to the same JP or Minidungeon and park them at the door/gate that has to be opened.

One example… that cave below the spinach patch in Gendarren… 3 lousy shards for soloing a Champion Spider = not worth it. But parking my other 4 alts right at the lock gate first and getting them all through it once it’s opened… turns the crappy drop amount of a PITA mini dungeon into almost a full scale dungeon once each alt pops the chest.

Well you don’t have to solo the spider and it does drop a bag which has a chance of dropping bloodstone dust and other goodies

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

And yeah, portals should be unusable in the JP/MD areas.

Tom Gore.4035:

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

Parking doesn’t matter in this case – as someone pointed out, even if JP’s gave out 10 fragments, it would take you 50 days to get enough fragments for one ascended weapon using a parked character. The fact that you can do it only once per day is a big detriment to this method.

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

Parking doesn’t matter in this case – as someone pointed out, even if JP’s gave out 10 fragments, it would take you 50 days to get enough fragments for one ascended weapon using a parked character. The fact that you can do it only once per day is a big detriment to this method.

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

Tom Gore.4035:

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

Lucky them… Though they also payed …what.. 50 bucks in gems for that privilege and who knows how much time Powerleveling ’em?

I can’t do that…
I have to use all of my characters for specialized roles every day and move them around a lot. I got a temple commander, a monk, a DPS’er, a Mez, and a crafter/accountant. I’d also point out that anyone who’s just “parking”, is missing out on a ton of money from Ancient sapplings and other node commodities that are going insane right now

ilr.9675:

Tom Gore.4035:

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

Lucky them… Though they also payed …what.. 50 bucks in gems for that privilege and who knows how much time Powerleveling ’em?

I can’t do that…
I have to use all of my characters for specialized roles every day and move them around a lot. I got a temple commander, a monk, a DPS’er, a Mez, and a crafter/accountant. I’d also point out that anyone who’s just “parking”, is missing out on a ton of money from Ancient sapplings and other node commodities that are going insane right now

They got their gems for 100 per 20-30 silver, back in the day.

Tom Gore.4035:

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

Parking doesn’t matter in this case – as someone pointed out, even if JP’s gave out 10 fragments, it would take you 50 days to get enough fragments for one ascended weapon using a parked character. The fact that you can do it only once per day is a big detriment to this method.

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

So? I can get more with just 3 alts and current drops if they are moving around, without doing anything eally hard too. Just a bit of running around and easy jumping. Granted, it takes me significantly longer, but then my chars are not locked to a single place, and i can use them for getting dragonite and bloodstone dust as well.

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

Parking doesn’t matter in this case – as someone pointed out, even if JP’s gave out 10 fragments, it would take you 50 days to get enough fragments for one ascended weapon using a parked character. The fact that you can do it only once per day is a big detriment to this method.

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

So? I can get more with just 3 alts and current drops if they are moving around, without doing anything eally hard too. Just a bit of running around and easy jumping. And 100 fragments per day is still pitiful compared to the daily amount of bloodstone dust and dragonite ore you can get with only minimal time and effort investment.

The difference is you have to play for a while with those 3 alts, whereas the other example only takes 15 minutes to go through.

Tom Gore.4035:

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

Astralporing.1957:

Tom Gore.4035:

But yeah, I think they should have solved the parking a character to the chest problem first and then increase the JP/Mini Dungeon rewards a ton, of course depending on the difficulty of said JP/MD.

Parking doesn’t matter in this case – as someone pointed out, even if JP’s gave out 10 fragments, it would take you 50 days to get enough fragments for one ascended weapon using a parked character. The fact that you can do it only once per day is a big detriment to this method.

Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.

So? I can get more with just 3 alts and current drops if they are moving around, without doing anything eally hard too. Just a bit of running around and easy jumping. And 100 fragments per day is still pitiful compared to the daily amount of bloodstone dust and dragonite ore you can get with only minimal time and effort investment.

The difference is you have to play for a while with those 3 alts, whereas the other example only takes 15 minutes to go through.

It’s still 10 characters that do exactly nothing but get those 10 fragments each per day. If someone decides to waste that many character slots, let him. The balance should never revolve around ridiculous extremes – or you will find drops given out at rate that is reasonable only for someone playing for 20 hours daily on 5 accounts with 20 characters each.

Winespring Brother.2970:

There are 5 easy to reach chests in Wayfarer Foothills as well (jumping puzzle, 2 Jotun caves, 2 Svanir caves).

I’ve noticed the Jotun chest in the potato farm doesn’t give shards. Strike one from that list.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Winespring Brother.2970:

There are 5 easy to reach chests in Wayfarer Foothills as well (jumping puzzle, 2 Jotun caves, 2 Svanir caves).

I’ve noticed the Jotun chest in the potato farm doesn’t give shards. Strike one from that list.

Your signature makes me lol. I wish the manifesto still existed every time I am out trying to get the components for the vision crystal… or when I was doing the scarlet invasions.

At least scarlet invasions were mostly optional after a point, and in a way, took some of the grind out of the game due to how much gold they gave.

These Shards though are just a pain to get. I might have to start resorting to dungeon runs to get enough for an ascended weapon. It’s just silly how few drop from jumping puzzles. As long as I do a few world bosses/temples, I get enough dragonite and bloodstone dust to make 1 item a piece. But jumping puzzles barely give me anything that I wonder why I bother.

Yeah, these shards do not drop enough outside of dungeons.

You can easily get 20-25 per character per day just by walking around Queensdale opening landscape chests.

What would qualify as dropping “enough”, when solo acquisition of these is already trivial with nothing more than opening the wiki and looking at the list of landscape chests?

You mean per level 80 character…

The reset is also 24 hours on those chests, which is really annoying. They should either reset with the daily, or reset every 23 hours.

Avatara.1042:

You mean per level 80 character…

The reset is also 24 hours on those chests, which is really annoying. They should either reset with the daily, or reset every 23 hours.

I have a radical idea. Instead of redoing the 5-6 chest every day, why don’t you travel out there and find more chests? I don’t have an exact count, but I am pretty sure there are over 100 chests in the world that drop shards. Even at the rate of getting 3 per chest average, you’d have your shards in a few days.

Exploration! Isn’t that what we wanted

Yeah, a change is needed. I guess were will see the following:

- All normal chests will become lootable once a day.

- JP chest will drop 8-10 shards and the difficult ones the same as dungeons (e.g. Obsidian Sanctum)

- Open world chests stay at 3-4 shards as their is nothing special involved here beside killing a few mobs or a champ you can easily kite away long enough too loot the chest.

Basically a new loot tables for the JP chests need to be added. Should not be biggie, just same as before just increased number of shards and maybe more silver. And the blue/green crap for the daily chests should be replaced by essence of luck right away.

So people like to jump but don’t like Fractals and dungeons can get their shards as well at the same rate. And the rest can just grab the open world chests. As their are tons of them no need to increase the drop rate (it should be a reward).

This also solves the problem of people doing the chests multiple times a day with alts by parking them there.

Something along these lines should keep everyone happy and I am sure we will see that kind of change in the future.

Obsidian Sanctum nor any WvW JP doesn’t even give these.

WilliamDaBloody.2591:

Something along these lines should keep everyone happy and I am sure we will see that kind of change in the future.

Except people do these for things other than fragments. Congratulations you just screwed over those people for your own benefit!

They just need to boost the amount give by jumping puzzles in my opinion. Keep it around 5-10 for the regular chests. 10-15 for the simple jumping puzzles, and 20-30 for the longer and more difficult puzzles and mini dungeons.

Coldin.2840:

They just need to boost the amount give by jumping puzzles in my opinion. Keep it around 5-10 for the regular chests. 10-15 for the simple jumping puzzles, and 20-30 for the longer and more difficult puzzles and mini dungeons.

I certainly wouldn’t mind being able to get them easier but which puzzle/mini-dungeon is actually difficult enough that it should give 20-30? This is in relation to the fact that regular dungeons only give 20. Which JP takes over 20-30 minutes?

Khisanth.2948:

Coldin.2840:

They just need to boost the amount give by jumping puzzles in my opinion. Keep it around 5-10 for the regular chests. 10-15 for the simple jumping puzzles, and 20-30 for the longer and more difficult puzzles and mini dungeons.

I certainly wouldn’t mind being able to get them easier but which puzzle/mini-dungeon is actually difficult enough that it should give 20-30? This is in relation to the fact that regular dungeons only give 20. Which JP takes over 20-30 minutes?

Boost dungeons too. I mean, temples are giving 30 dragonite per completion per day too.

As for which JP? That’s tough, because they can take a long time or a short time depending on how often one screws up. That jumping puzzle over in Southsun is pretty brutal about that. Obsidium Sanctum out in WvW also takes a fair amount of time. There’s that one cove jumping puzzle out in Orr, and the jumping puzzle out in Mount Maelstrom as well that can take a large amount of time.

Edit: What’s with all these 500 errors?

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Winespring Brother.2970:

There are 5 easy to reach chests in Wayfarer Foothills as well (jumping puzzle, 2 Jotun caves, 2 Svanir caves).

I’ve noticed the Jotun chest in the potato farm doesn’t give shards. Strike one from that list.

The Hoelbrak chests seem to be variable, from 0 to 3.

Faster than then WvW supply camps, but still… so much for “no grind”.

Farm Wars 2!!! (how fun…)

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

The Hoelbrak chests seem to be variable, from 0 to 3.

Three days in a row, only a blue from that chest, and shards from every other like chest in the area… tells me that this one isn’t reliable enough to run around to daily, even though I’ll farm the spuds.

Go to orrmaps and cycle through the maps until you find one with the chests all laid out. Run through each chests on each of your 80s. I made about 150 in an hour doing this.

I think that the reason why jumping puzzles have a much lower amount is because it’s possible to get to the chest with a Mesmer portal, requiring just about zero time and zero effort.

Olba.5376:

I think that the reason why jumping puzzles have a much lower amount is because it’s possible to get to the chest with a Mesmer portal, requiring just about zero time and zero effort.

Why don’t we reduce the dungeon rewards then, because it’s possible to join at the last boss?

Edit: and i second the question: what is about all those error 500 messages lately?

Nike.2631:

ANY chest out on the landscape will give a few, and they will do so for EACH 80th level character that drops by once per day.

There is a casual loop of 6 chests in Queensdale. I’ve been running several of my 80s out there and can easily pick up 100 per day just from that zone.

This!

I usually do LA JP with my all characters and Queensdale run. Didn’t count exactly how many I got butshould be at least 100 per day. OFC you don’t get shards every time but still it is nice, efortless income.

You need multiple 80s for that…

Queensdale chest run is about 20 fragments on average. To get 100 daily you’d need to do that with 5 chars. Unless you are really hardcore, you won’t be able to keep it up for more than few days. Which may give you enough for one weapon. One.

Astralporing.1957:

Queensdale chest run is about 20 fragments on average. To get 100 daily you’d need to do that with 5 chars. Unless you are really hardcore, you won’t be able to keep it up for more than few days. Which may give you enough for one weapon. One.

Yep. Meanwhile, you can get 100 dragonite with just one character in one day, just by making sure you hit a temple or two and a few world bosses. Don’t even need to have multiple alts. Same with the Bloodstone Dust.

As far as I can tell, dungeons are the only “easy” way at shards, and even those are only 20 per path.

Do you need to be level 80 to get the shards from the JP chests?

There is zero need to change the chests to per account instead of per character – just another way to screw over people who enjoy actively playing and gearing alts. Don’t like that you are somehow at a disadvantage? No one is stopping you from leveling more 80’s.